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“Sa to think about how to answer, ortoo badly to understand the question I didn’t care which it was I stood over her, patiently waiting for her to answer

“He was aze to stare at so over my shoulder “He’s… He’s my father”

That answer surprised the fuck out of me, but I kept hter, then no wonder she was helping that fucker out by spying on us

Shit

“But I hate him,” she went on after a small pause, so fervently I didn’t doubt her even for a second “I hate that sonofabitch more than any other person on the planet I would have killed hiotten aith it”

“Why is that?”

“There are a hundred reasons I could think of just off the top of rowled “Like how he treated ot sick How he still treats her My mother loved that sliht of him But would he marry the woman who loved him, when the one who hated him only wasted his money on facelifts and tummy tucks? No Because my mother wasn’t the type of woman who could help

hiet his Senate seat”

The passion in her voice, on her gorgeous face, was the most I had ever heard or seen from her in all the time I had known her The love she felt for her mother shone like a beacon from her eyes

“So why help Saain when I realized I had begun to soften toward her a little “If you hate him so much, ould you help him?

“Because he threatened to stop my mother’s care if I didn’t,” she said in a voice that was clouded with pain “My mother has Alzheimer’s”

That was the first I had heard of it, but then again, this was the first time she had even mentioned her mother Until now, I hadn’t even realized she actually had family that was alive

“She has round-the-clock care in one of the best nursing ho faster than even her doctors expected On her good days, she can barely even remember who I a bathroom” Despair filled Kelli’s eyes, and she lowered the for her nursing hoiving her ood days than bad ones”

“He was holding your et you to find out all you could on me and the club,” I bit out, not a question but a statement

She nodded, then moaned at the sudden movement of her head “Yes,” she ain “But he’d been getting fed up with me, and I kneas only a matter of time before he finally cut my mother off”